Welcome Starpoint, Depew, Lockport, Cheektowaga, Wellsville, and Amherst teachers. Below, you will find the resources shared during our conversations throughout the winter of 2010-2011. English Language Arts teachers will find resources relevant to writing instruction in their classrooms just below this introductory paragraph. Content area teachers, please scroll down further to find materials and links that may be meaningful for you. Please consider joining this space, sharing your own work, and starting a conversation in the Discussion space above. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact Angela Stockman at stockmanangela@gmail.com. Many thanks to the fellows of the WNY Young Writers Studio and Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change, who help me learn so that I am better able to help you. See you soon!
The West Virginia Department of Education provides basic explanations and templates for supporting writing in all content areas. Introductorylevel strategies include:
Writing Fixhas become a valuable tool for many ELA teachers, but did you know they provide a great deal of writing instruction support to content area teachers as well?
ELA teachers have also incorporated many of Steve Peha'swriting strategies within their instruction. Recently, Steve added a number of new resources to his site specifically for content area teachers who are beginning to support writing. His comprehensive guides include directions, templates, and samples that you may download for free (see his left sidebar) and use with your students.
Learning Patterns is a fantastic manual of strategies and resources ready for classroom use.
The Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide also provides support for teachers of every content area.
Learning Across the Curriculum is a ready-to-use tool as well.
Eager to learn from practicing content area teachers? You might be interested in some of these videos:
Those interested in learning more about the 6+1 Traits can find a number of resources [[file/view/teachingwithtraits.pdf|here]]. The second page of that document provides a "clickable" list of web resources as well. In addition:
See how the Traits can be translated for use in Math right here.
Learn about the influence of Traits-based instruction on performance here.
Using rubrics and assessment criteria as tools to enrich instruction and revision helps writers substantially. Read about this here.
Finally, these sites and resources may also be of use to you or your colleagues as you learn together this year. If I can help you more, please let me know!
Supporting Writers
Welcome Starpoint, Depew, Lockport, Cheektowaga, Wellsville, and Amherst teachers. Below, you will find the resources shared during our conversations throughout the winter of 2010-2011. English Language Arts teachers will find resources relevant to writing instruction in their classrooms just below this introductory paragraph. Content area teachers, please scroll down further to find materials and links that may be meaningful for you. Please consider joining this space, sharing your own work, and starting a conversation in the Discussion space above. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact Angela Stockman at stockmanangela@gmail.com. Many thanks to the fellows of the WNY Young Writers Studio and Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change, who help me learn so that I am better able to help you. See you soon!
Materials for Cheektowaga Session on August 15th:
SUPPORTING WRITERS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOMS
Supporting Writers
The Studio Model
Dispositions Posters
Dispositions Tee Shirt Directions and Examples
Prewriting and Generating Ideas:
A blog post: Ideas Inspire Pre-writing Inspires Ideas
Resources at Writing Fix
Exploring the Estate Brainstorming Lesson Plan and Slides
Looping and Zooming Activity:
Ideas at Play Centers: Scrabble Stories, Poetry Smash, Story Cubes, Inventagame, Scavenger Hunt
Other Brainstorming Strategies
Going Deeper With Idea Development: Small Moment Story Video and the Draw, Label, Caption Strategy (included in this wonderful download by Steve Peha)
Drafting and Organization:
A blog post: Drafting--Giving Voice and Shape to Our Ideas
Resources at Writing Fix
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Center and rubric based upon this lesson at Writing Fix
Planning a Purposeful Center
Drafting and Development of Voice:
Resources at Writing Fix
Hearing Voices Lesson Plan , Text Clips, and RAFT
Drafting and Word Choice:
Resources at Writing Fix
Post it Poetry Activity
Drafting and Sentence Fluency:
Resources at Writing Fix
Peer Review
A blog post: Introducing Young Writers to the Peer Review Process
Secondary Level Document
Elementary Level Document
Editing and Conventions:
Resources at Writing Fix
Differentiating the Editing Process, Pre-Test, Tally Sheet
SUPPORTING WRITING IN CONTENT AREA CLASSROOMS
- The West Virginia Department of Education provides basic explanations and templates for supporting writing in all content areas. Introductorylevel strategies include:
- Journals
- Learning Logs
- RAFT
- KWL
- GIST Statements
- List, Group, Label Vocabulary Activities
- Using a Variety of Graphic Organizers to Capture Thinking
- Five Sense Activities (scroll down)
- Writing Fixhas become a valuable tool for many ELA teachers, but did you know they provide a great deal of writing instruction support to content area teachers as well?
- More on RAFT Assignments
- History Fix>>
- Science Fix
- Number Fix
- ELA teachers have also incorporated many of Steve Peha'swriting strategies within their instruction. Recently, Steve added a number of new resources to his site specifically for content area teachers who are beginning to support writing. His comprehensive guides include directions, templates, and samples that you may download for free (see his left sidebar) and use with your students.
- Learning Patterns is a fantastic manual of strategies and resources ready for classroom use.
- The Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide also provides support for teachers of every content area.
- Learning Across the Curriculum is a ready-to-use tool as well.
- Eager to learn from practicing content area teachers? You might be interested in some of these videos:
- Integrating Reading and Writing in the Science Classroom
- Writing for Understanding in Social Studies
- Claymation Across the Curriculum
- One Teacher's Google Search for Writing in Math
- Those interested in learning more about the 6+1 Traits can find a number of resources [[file/view/teachingwithtraits.pdf|here]]. The second page of that document provides a "clickable" list of web resources as well. In addition:
- See how the Traits can be translated for use in Math right here.
- Learn about the influence of Traits-based instruction on performance here.
- Using rubrics and assessment criteria as tools to enrich instruction and revision helps writers substantially. Read about this here.
Finally, these sites and resources may also be of use to you or your colleagues as you learn together this year. If I can help you more, please let me know!Additional Resources and Invitations:
Interested in learning how to blog, improving the blog you have, or inviting your students to learn how? Join the WNY Young Writers' Studio Blogging Bootcamp--it's free and you can participate anytime.
Looking for more information about other topics relevant to writing instruction or other best practices? You can access my "digital file cabinet" right here.